Acts 11:1-9 ▼

1 But the apostles and brethren being throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also received the word of God.

2 And when Peter went tip to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision interviewed him, say

3 that, You went in unto men having uncircumcision, and ate with them.

4 And Peter beginning expounded unto them consecutively, saying,

5 I was praying in the city Joppa: and I saw a vision in an ecstasy, A certain vessel, like a great sheet, descending from the heaven, sitting down by four rope ends; and came even unto me:

6 into which looking, I was investigating, and I saw quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the birds of the heaven.

7 And I also heard a voice saying to me, Arising, Peter; slay and eat.

8 And I said, By no means, Lord: because nothing unconsecrated or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.

9 And a voice a second time was heard from heaven, Whatsoever things God has cleansed, consider thou not unconsecrated.